REMEMBERING DOUBLE SIX

Remembering double six is one tragedy that plane crash in Sabah and give bad tragedy. This was occurs in 6.6.1976 and involving six (6) leaders in Sabah. The plane, operated by Sabah Air, coming from Labuan crashed in the district of Sembulan in Kota Kinabalu upon approaching Kota Kinabalu International Airport. On the plane were eleven passengers, including the Chief Minister and three of his friends Cabinet.

Many of the stories related with these events. One of the stories, the plane ran out of petrol and had sharply into the swamp in Sembulan.This event is touched on the political matters. The history of this events also relate with there are certain parties that have their own agenda to remove the Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens in order to get the oil importance and resources of Sabah, including that lot of logs.

Just like an airplane landing at Kota Kianabalu Airport (old) in Tanjung Aru evening, somehow fell into the sea near the coast in Sembulan and lost near the stage-house by a meter. All eleven passengers were killed. Chief Minister, Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens (also known as Dato’ Donald Stephens) has led his party to win in political of Sabah general selection just a few weeks ago in April, defeating the party led by Commitments USNO. Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens that a half-Australian and half-Kadazan, first became Chief Minister on 31 August 1963, the day North Borneo into Sabah, after getting autonomy from England. His resigned as a Chief Minister on 1 January 1965, opened the way for Dato’ Peter Lo, that first Chinese to become Chief Ministry of Sabah.

 In this incident, have 0ne black box which still cannot be found. The black box was the only one who can expose this incident. Until now the remembering double six still give question mark to our people.

 The list of persons that killed in the tragedy :

·         Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens (Chief Ministry of Sabah)

·         Datuk Peter Mojuntin (state minister of local government)

·         Datuk Chong Tahin Vun (minister of communication and public works)

·         Datuk Salleh Sulong (state finance minister)

·         Darius Binion (assistant minister)

·         Wahid Andu (permanent secretary of finance minister)

·         Syed Hussein Wafa (director of national economic planning unit)

·         Ishak Atan (private secretary)

·         Kopral mohd Said (bodyguard)

·         Gandhi J Nathan (pilot)

·         Johari (son to the Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens)